Frank Herbert Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.

  Frank Herbert

  Moving, Cutting, Reality

  "The Santaroga Barrier". Book by Frank Herbert, 1968.

• Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

  Frank Herbert

  Training, Language, Delusion

  "Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "Gowachin Aphorism"; p. 111, 1969.

• I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

  Frank Herbert

  Machines, Language, Speak

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.145, Penguin

• A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

  Frank Herbert

  Coffee, Moving, Men

  "Dune (40th Anniversary Edition)". Book by Frank Herbert, Penguin, p. 30, August 2, 2005.

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